Commonwealth v. Sullivan

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a defendant-motorist was not in custody when subjected to an ordinary traffic stop and, as such, his spontaneous admission that he was intoxicated was not subject to Miranda
• holding that a defendant-motorist was not in custody for Miranda purposes when subject to an ordinary traffic stop, and not placed under arrest, forced to enter a police patrol car, subjected to coercion, or subject to prolonged questioning
• holding defendant not in custody after he was directed to perform simple sobriety tests
• the fact-finder may believe all, part or more of none of the evidence presented
• defendant-motorist was not in custody when subject to an ordinary traffic stop and not placed under arrest, forced to enter a police patrol car, subjected to coercion, or subject to prolonged questioning
• defendant-motorist was not in custody when subject to an ordinary traffic stop and not placed under arrest, forced to enter a police patrol car, subjected to coercion, or subject to prolonged questioning

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

6 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Commonwealth v. Mannion
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1999-02-05· cited 93×
• Commonwealth v. Lawson
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1994-10-07· cited 70×
• Commonwealth v. Hilliar
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2008-02-21· cited 65×
• Commonwealth v. Turner
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2001-03-09· cited 55×
• Commonwealth v. Price
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1992-11-13· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Demark
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 2002-05-31· cited 6×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Pennsylvania v. Bruder
  Supreme Court· 1988-10-31· cited 190×
• Commonwealth v. Gonzalez
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1988-07-28· cited 113×
• Commonwealth v. Seville
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1979-06-13· cited 53×
• Commonwealth v. Lyons
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-03-13· cited 50×
• Commonwealth v. Toanone
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-01-19· cited 44×
• Commonwealth v. Zelinski
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1990-04-18· cited 31×
• Commonwealth v. Karch
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1986-01-17· cited 27×
• Commonwealth v. Kravontka
  Supreme Court of Pennsylvania· 1989-05-01· cited 25×